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Ali Muwaabe Kirunda Kivejinja (1935-2020) The Prince of the Baisemenhya; one of Busoga’s greatest sons, Ali Muwaabe Kirunda Kivejinja rests―a eulogy of a man whose life and the post-colonial political history of Uganda are intertwined.

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Late Hon. Kivejinja served the NRM government as Minister of Relief and Social Rehabilitation; Works and Transport, Minister Without Portfolio; Minister of State for Foreign Affairs; Deputy National Political Commissar; Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of East African Affairs. He also served as Constituent Assembly Delegate for Bugweri (1994-96) and MP Bugweri (1996-2001).
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Uganda’s Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of East African Community Affairs, Ali Muwaabe Kirunda Kivejinja has died. He was 85 years old. He was born on 12 June 1935 in an aristocratic family that traced its origin from the ancient Kingdom of Bunyoro Kitara, at the height of British colonial occupation of Uganda. Kirunda Kivejinja was a Prince of the Baisemenhya, one of the ele

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